UK Politics Thread

I heard it mainly started with the US soldiers who were stationed here during WW2, when of course the UK had been under rationing for years. Plus it took a long while to recover after the war. 

So now it's become a known 'thing', and every ESL textbook has a section where they learn English by complaining about the food and the service in a British restaurant  

I've had converstions about it with at least 8 separate Japanese people who visited the UK, and said UK food was bad. But I feel like it's mostly expectation. When I asked for examples they mostly couldn't come up with anything. At least one complained about the hotel breakfast, but when I asked it was basically a buffet of Kelloggs cereals, Fruit and Bread, which is exactly what you'd get in most countries so *shrug*. 

But it's also not really in British people's nature to be proud of stuff or boast about it and talk it up. 

"So, random Brit, what's the UK like?" 
"Well, the weather isn't great and it rains a lot, and the food sucks, and the trains are always late, but I guess it's ok. How about Japan, random Japanese dude?" 
"Well, we have the best food in the world, amazing service, and 4 distinct seasons*! and it's a very safe country!" 


*freezing season, allergy season, downpour season, melting season, and autumn is ok.  

This place sounds amazing. Far better than the UK's continuous year long grey season which takes the occasional day off for a special guest.

I’ve eaten horse sashimi in japan (chewy), chicken gizzards (crunchy), wierd chicken collagen/cartilage(?) meatball yakitori (gristly), beef intestine yakiniku (this is actually very good but they bring a raw bowl of it to you), a grilled fish head (picking out cheek meat and eyes with chopsticks), an “ommelet” pot noodle that I couldn’t even eat pissed at 3am in the hotel room

This is brilliant by Emily Maitlis

Emily Maitlis is brilliant. Really takes no bullshit. I did unsub from The News Agents as my life was getting a bit echo chambery, but I might need to resub.

Farage is a pathetic person.

Yoy know he’s been rattled when he resorts to snide “i don’t know if you have friends” jibes

Trump was so upset by the events of Sat that he had to call up his bestest buddy in the whole world and ask him to come over for support.

Bull. Shit. Farage would have been there even without the assassination attempt

He nearly died and then frog face turned up to kiss his ring, I almost feel some sympathy for Trump.

Almost.

Jack Black isn't gonna tour with you anymore if you say stuff like that! 

I think what’s funniest to me is that its not unreasonable for a right-wing MP to be trying to make friends at the RNC or attending fringe events over there for a couple of days. But Farage is so desperate to look like he’s Trump’s pal and so thin skinned about his own career and status that Maitliss can turn it into a button to push and he immediately squirms.

It's funnier when you realise that four of those "bad policies" were being attempted by the Tories before Labour got in.
But of course they were absolutely useless at achieving anything other than crashing the economy...

Bloody Keir Stalin! /shakes fist

Conversion therapy is the one where you psychologically abuse gay people until they have to pretend not to be, right?

What’s that got to do with Liz’s attack on trans rights? Or is that just a catchall sentence to account for all of ‘woke’?